Robert Fortune
Robert Fortune , born the September 16th 1812 in Kelloe in the Berwickshire and dead the April 13rd 1880 with London, is a Botaniste and a British Voyageur .
Fortune works initially with the Botanical garden of Edinburgh and later with that of the Royal Horticultural Society with Chiswick. After the treaty of Nankin in 1842, this Company sends it in China to collect plants there.
In 1848, another voyage organized on behalf of the British Company of the Eastern Indies (the British East India Company), enables him to introduce in India 20.000 feet of Théier. Its following voyages, with Taiwan and the Japan, enable him to describe the breeding of the Silkworm and the culture of the Riz.
Its voyages allow the introduction in Europe of many decorative species, like the Kumquat, of many varieties of Pivoine S, Azalée S and Chrysanthème S.
Plants named according to Robert Fortune
- Arundinaria fortunei
- Euonymous fortunei
- Hosta fortunei
- Keteleeria fortunei
- Mahonia fortunei
- Maxburretia fortunei
- Osmanthus fortunei
- Pleioblastus fortunei
- Rhododendron fortunei
- Rosa fortuniana
- Trachycarpus fortunei
Another introduction according to Fortune
- Jasminium nudiflorum
- Dicentra spectabilis
- Forsythia viridissima
Publications
- Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces off Clouded (1847)
- has Journey to the Tea Countries off Clouded (1852)
- has Residence Among the Chinese (1857)
- Yedo and Peking (1863)